Drive automated software validation for Telesat’s distributed microservices using Python, Pytest, GitLab CI/CD, and rigorous failure analysis.

As a senior individual contributor, you will develop frameworks, test utilities, plugins, and quality gates supporting production-grade engineering. The position spans functional, integration, contract, system, regression, reliability, resilience, performance, and scalability automation. You will collaborate with developers, DevOps engineers, architects, and quality engineering stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

Create functional and non-functional automation for service workflows

Extend Pytest plugins for reporting, retries, and parallel execution

Integrate tests, logs, artifacts, and quality gates into GitLab

Investigate timeouts, retries, duplicates, backpressure, and recovery





Improve diagnostics through logs, metrics, traces, and isolation

Requirements

Experience designing substantial automation frameworks beyond individual test cases

Robust Python architecture, concurrency, error handling, and logging skills

Experience with GitLab CI/CD, runners, artifacts, and merge requests

Understanding of distributed systems and event-driven microservices

Strong debugging, analytical, communication, and collaboration skills

Bring senior software development and test automation expertise to Telesat’s Python, Pytest, CI/CD, and distributed-systems engineering.

📌 Senior Test Automation Software Developer (Montreal)
🏢 Telesat
📍 Montreal